Gallery wrapped canvas on easel
A gallery wrapped canvas is a canvas that is attached to the back of stretchers with staples. A non-gallery wrap may staple the canvas to the sides of the stretchers which prevents the depiciton from duration mounted without a frame. When the canvas is long and stapled to the back, the artist can dye approximately the corner of the canvas and the illustration can be hung with no frame. An existing delineation can be lingering and mounted in this process although it may perceive awkward to glare painted canvas on the back of the stretcher where you are stapling.
Instructions
1. Buy stretcher bars in the proportions you craving to appliance. For a latest picture you can appropriate any vastness you longing. For an existing representation you Testament longing To gauge the painted surface of the profession and hire stretcher bars that are at least one inch shorter for both length and wideness. Provided the stretcher bar (the wood) is thicker than a half inch you may entail To admit extended than one inch shorter.
2. Build the stretcher bars. Most stretcher bars are slotted. The top side doesn't have writing. The bottom side has the measurement of the stretcher. Insert the slotted corners together. Bring your canvas over the side of the stretcher bar and staple the canvas near the center thickness of the stretcher bar. Go directly across the canvas and stretch the canvas with your hands. You should see a tightening of the canvas.
Position the stretcher bar over the canvas with at least 3 inches of excess canvas on each side. Trim off the excess with scissors.
4. Find the center of a long side. Measure diagonally from corner to corner to check for square. Your diagonal measurements should be the same when the wood is square.3. Place the canvas face-down on the work table. Place a staple. Go to the center of each side. Pull. Stretch and staple. For larger canvas you will need to use special canvas stretching pliers in order to pull the canvas.
5. Return to your first long side. Use your pliers (if necessary), stretch and add three to four more staples 1 to 2 inches apart moving away from each side of the center. Move across to your other long side and repeat. You want to pull your canvas taut but not so tight as to bend the wood. Move to the sides and continue in this pattern until you are 5 inches from the corners.
6. Pull the canvas corner close to you toward the top. Place a staple 1/2 inch from the side. Stretch the corner lightly and place your finger on the corner. Bring the canvas edge back toward you in a 1-inch pleat that will be at a 45-degree angle. Bring the side canvas over the pleat so that there is a fold even with the bottom edge closest to you. Staple with two staples at least 1/2 inch apart. Repeat each corner the same way.
7. Stretch with canvas stretcher pliers the canvas between the corner and the 5 inches and finish stapling each side.
